From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 2 18:51:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19F2137B401 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 18:51:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 667F943EB2 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 18:51:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h032pQ1e033177; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 19:51:26 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 19:51:02 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20030102.195102.106545644.imp@bsdimp.com> To: kientzle@acm.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devd, crunchgen, C++, and /rescue From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <3E134AB2.8030401@acm.org> References: <3E134AB2.8030401@acm.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <3E134AB2.8030401@acm.org> Tim Kientzle writes: : For now, this means that devd will not be in : /rescue. I'm not entirely happy about this. devd typically wouldn't be all that useful for a /rescue environment. : Policy question: Is C++ considered acceptable in /bin : and /sbin? (I presume so, since Warner's doing it.) Yes. I don't see why not. : Technical Question: Does anyone know how to get : crunchgen to play nicely with C++ programs? (I've : tried a couple of simple changes to the generated : makefile with no success.) What's the problem. : Usability Question: How necessary is devd likely to : be for people recovering from serious disaster? Not very. It certainly isn't REQUIRED since you can always do what devd forks by hand... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message